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Remembering Solar System Planets: Easy Mnemonics
Also have trouble remembering the planets of our solar system and their sequence according to distance from the sun ? Fortunately some good mnenomics have been invented for this. Like this one : My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nachos. Or if you are from the old guard when Pluto was still a planet : My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. The corresponding planet sequence being : Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
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Vienna ahead of the curve
‘By the end of the century, Vienna had given birth to Viktor Adler’s socialism and Theodor Herzl’s Zionism. It was the home Sigmund Freud loved to hate and the political base for Karl Lueger, the city’s longtime mayor, whose heady mix of pupulism and anti-Semitism drew the rapt attention of the young Adolf Hitler. If the nineteenth century came late to this society, the twentieth arrived early.‘― Ruth Lewin Sime
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Birthday of Ray Dolby
Ray Milton Dolby was born on January 18 1933. He was an American engineer and inventor of the Dolby NR noise reduction system and founded Dolby Laboratories. Today Dolby is everywhere with Dolby Surround, Dolby Atmos, Dolby HD and so on. The world of entertainment certainly sounds differently with Dolby.
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A Tour of the Calculus, David Berlinski (ISBN 978-0-679-74788-8, Vintage Books)
A Tour of the Calculus is a strange and unique book. According to text on the back it is likely to become a classic as Gödel, Escher, Bach. But I doubt that very much. The book was written in 1995 and so far I haven’t come across it in any list of classics. I also read Gödel, Escher, Bach and I can say that that book made a lasting impression on me and is a classic also in my book. A Tour of the Calculus is not of the same order. It is a strange mix of popular mathematics, history…
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Swine
‘As a ring of gold in a swine’s snout, So is a fair woman that turneth aside from discretion.‘― Proverbs 22
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Dirty Mind
‘I always start writing with a clean sheet of paper and a dirty mind.‘― Patrick Dennis
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Unexpected
‘The shepherd in Virgil sought for love and found him a native of the rocks.‘― Samuel Johnson
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Not knowing
‘I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.‘― Richard Feynman
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Turning point. The bomb and the Cold War
I recently was tipped about this Netflix series about the atomic bomb and the Cold War so I decided to give it a try. It fitted with much of my recent reading about Oppenheimer and the making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes and Leslie Groves. The series has 9 episodes of roughly 70 minutes each and focuses mostly on the Cold War, the making of the atomic bomb is covered in the first episode. Much of what is covered in the series that is related to the atomic bomb and the nuclear arms race can also be read…
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